The greatest of all Romantic ballets returns to The Royal Ballet for the Winter Season 2015/16: Peter Wright’s production of Giselle, a tale of betrayal, the supernatural and enduring love. The Season also includes the first mixed programme devoted entirely to work by Royal Ballet Artistic Associate Christopher Wheeldon: the trio of one-act ballets includes a world premiere, After the Rainand Within the Golden Hour.

In the Linbury Studio Theatre, Will Tuckett’s Elizabeth opens in January. Starring Carlos Acosta and Zenaida Yanowsky, it is a full-length narrative about the life of Elizabeth I. The piece will mark a wonderful end to our Season in the Linbury Studio Theatre before it closes for refurbishment as part of Open Up.

The packages are extremely flexible, including a choice of ‘Total’, ‘Mini’ and Family packages, as well as a Design Your Own option. You can add any performance in the run to your package, and choose any seat within the available price types and sections (Amphitheatre and Orchestra Stalls).

Package details

20% discount for an Orchestra Stalls package
12% discount for an Amphitheatre package

TOTAL BALLET
Enjoy every Royal Ballet production this Winter.

18% discount for an Orchestra Stalls package
10% discount for an Amphitheatre package

MINI PACKAGES
Enjoy three of our recommended productions from the Winter Season.

15% discount for an Orchestra Stalls package
10% discount for an Amphitheatre package

DESIGN YOUR OWN
Mix and match from our selected productions.

10% discount for an Orchestra Stalls package
5% discount for an Amphitheatre package

(Please note that not all the productions in the Winter Season are available in this package)

FAMILY PACKAGE
Enjoy Royal Ballet classic Swan Lake or Mozart's glorious Die Zauberflöte with the whole family

Save up to 33%: customers can buy up to two full price adult tickets and up to four half-price children’s tickets (under 18s).
There must be one adult for every two children. All of the tickets in a Family Package must be in the same area of the theatre: either Orchestra Stalls or Amphitheatre.

Please note:You can exchange up to two dates from a Total Opera or a Total Ballet package, or one date from a Mini, Design Your Own and Family package. You can only exchange your tickets for another performance of the same production in the same booking period at the same price.

To offer an exchange, we will need to receive the original tickets at least three working days before the performance in question. Otherwise, we can only offer to resell the tickets, and unfortunately we cannot guarantee being able to do this. Exchanges are subject to availability and the usual Box Office conditions apply.

Don Quixote
25 November–22 January
By Carlos Acosta after Marius Petipa
Carlos Acosta's exuberant production of this classic tale of friendship, love and loyalty is bursting with joie de vivre.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
6 December 2014–16 January 2015; Live cinema relay on 16 December
Welcome Performance for Families 6 December
By Christopher Wheeldon
Follow Alice down the rabbit hole in Christopher Wheeldon’s thrillingly entertaining ballet.

The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party NEW (Linbury Studio Theatre)
6 December 2014–3 January 2015
ZooNation
ZooNation burst onto the stage with their family Christmas show, a wonderfully wacky take on the madcap characters of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Onegin
24 January–27 February
By John Cranko
Music: Kurt-Heinz Stolze after Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
John Cranko’s interpretation of Pushkin’s verse-novel contains some of ballet’s most emotionally charged moments, set to stirring music by Tchaikovsky.

Swan Lake
10 February–9 April; Live cinema relay on 17 March
By Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov
Music: Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky
Anthony Dowell's production of the greatest romantic ballet draws upon the opulence of 1890s Russia.

Listen to the Silence – A Journey with John Cage NEW (Linbury Studio Theatre)
30 January–1 February
John Cage
Dir: Wouter Van Looy / Letizia Renzini
Explore the mind-bending world of philosopher composer John Cage in Zonzo Compagnie's award-winning interactive family show.

Andrea Chénier NEW
20 January–6 February; Live cinema relay on 29 January
Umberto Giordano
Dir: David McVicar
Cond: Antonio Pappano
David McVicar directs a new production of Umberto Giordano's passionate drama of liberty and love in the French Revolution.

Group Booking for Winter Season productions opens on 8 October, two weeks ahead of General Booking on 22 October.

Groups can save up to 40% on an outstanding line-up of opera and ballet, securing the best seats at the best prices. Furthermore, if patrons confirm their group booking before 21 November, they will receive an extra 5% discount off the booking.

Ballet available for group booking includes George Balanchine’s sparkling Jewels, Peter Wright’s production of the heartbreaking Romantic favourite Giselle, and a Mixed Programme, which includes work from three defining choreographers of The Royal Ballet: Frederick Ashton’s celebratory Rhapsody, Kenneth MacMillan’s powerful Gloria and Wayne McGregor’s new production The Art of Fugue.

Operas on offer this season include Kasper Holten’s brand new production of Mozart’s dark exhilarating opera, Don Giovanni, Francesca Zambello’s production of Bizet’s passionate Carmen, and Laurent Pelly’s productions of both Donizetti’s much-loved La Fille du régiment and Massenet’s classic Manon.

Groups of ten or more are eligible for group booking, making it the ideal opportunity to introduce family and friends to Royal Opera House productions. Find out full details of winter offers.

Other benefits for group bookers include a ‘book now, pay later’ arrangement and a dedicated group booking phone line.

Tickets can be booked through our Group Sales Department by email at groupbookings@roh.org.uk and by telephone on +44 (0)20 7304 4002.

King Priam (Linbury Studio Theatre)Dir: James Conway
13 - 22 February
Michael Tippett’s magnificent King Priam is brought to the ROH in one of English Touring Opera’s most ambitious productions to date.

TurandotDir: Andrei Serban
9 September – 10 March
Andrei Serban’s staging of Puccini’s final opera is a glorious pageant of rich colour, dance and drama.

Ballet

The Nutcracker
4 December – 16 January; Live in cinema 12 December
A young girl's enchanted present leads her on a wonderful adventure in this classic ballet, accompanied by Tchaikovsky's glittering score.

The Wind in the Willows11 December - 1 February at The Duchess TheatreThe Duchess Theatre in the West End hosts choreographer and director Will Tuckett’s hugely popular and critically acclaimed Christmas production of Kenneth Grahame’s classic tale.

Jewels
17 December – 7 January
George Balanchine’s evocation of the sparkle of emeralds, rubies and diamonds is a ballet gem in its own right.

Hansel and Gretel(Linbury Studio Theatre)
January
Artist-in-Residence Liam Scarlett’s first full-length work for The Royal Ballet – a dark, adult take on a classic fairytale.

Giselle
18 January – 10 February; Live in cinema 27 January
The greatest of all Romantic ballets – Marius Petipa’s classic work is a dramatic story of betrayal, supernatural spirits and love that transcends death.

Flakes of white paint peel from walls lined with dilapidated filing cabinets, their contents spilling onto the floor in chaotic disarray. Two immaculately dressed dancers arch gracefully, their movement mirroring the fly-away sheets of notes. A figure draped in a blood-red gown perches on top of the cabinets behind, contemplative and isolated…

With fluttering white papers and agile dancers in the place of shadows and the hulking silhouette of the Minotaur, the One Extraordinary World Winter Season campaign is a dramatic contrast to the Autumn Season image and accompanying film.

The winter campaign was inspired by the concept of memory, as Concept and Art Director of agency AKA Matt Dixon explains:

"The image is informed by those fleeting moments in time that determine our path in life; moments over which we seemingly have no control, and which, when remembered, distort and betray us, are represented as a chaotic store of notes and bound volumes of memories. The foreground characters are controlled by the forces around them - pulled into the scene by the flow of the wind and carried weightless."

The campaign draws on themes from Winter Season productions, in particular Jonathan Kent’s production of Tosca and the tale of Eugene Onegin, on stage as both a ballet and an opera. The campaign features Royal Ballet Principals Steven McRae and Thiago Soares. Find out full details of the Winter Season.

Priority group booking for winter productions opens tomorrow (2 October), several weeks ahead of public booking. Group bookings offer visitors to the Royal Opera House the chance to see both popular favourites and brand new productions at discounted prices.

Groups can save up to 40% on tickets, making it the perfect opportunity to introduce first-time friends and family to ballet and opera. Other benefits include priority booking, a ‘book now, pay later’ arrangement and a dedicated group booking phone line.

Group booking offers for the Winter Season include Jonathan Kent's production of Puccini’s tragic Tosca.

On Wednesday 17 October 2012, booking for Winter Season productions at the Royal Opera House opens for the general public. Booking for Winter Advanced Packages, which includes a Winter Family Package, has been open since 10 October.

The Royal Opera opens the Winter Season with Kasper Holten’s directorial debut Eugene Onegin. A production described by Kasper as a fresh reading of a classic opera, the titular role will be sung by Simon Keenlyside, who played the role of Macbeth in Covent Garden to critical acclaim in 2011. The season also features the hotly anticipated UK premiere of George Benjamin’s Written on Skin, for which director Katie Mitchell makes her Royal Opera main stage debut; Jonathan Kent’s much-loved production of the classic Tosca; and Daniele Abbado’s new production of Nabucco, which will feature Plácido Domingo in the title role.